Please note: this is not the release of the game, just the Steam keys in preparation for your Early Access this summer!

Backers, rejoice! Steam keys for Empires of the Undergrowth have now been sent to your emails. This will be the email associated with your Kickstarter account, or with your PayPal account if you backed after the campaign Ė so please check that for your key (also check your junk mail folder just in case, sometimes your email provider can confuse things as spam).

There are a few things to be aware of here, so please read them:

If you are a beta backer, your key will allow you to download the Backerís Demo through Steam immediately! When the game goes into beta testing in a few months, your Backerís Demo will update to be the beta Early Access version. If you are not a beta backer, your key will allow you to add Empires of the Undergrowth to your Steam library, but not download anything yet. When Early Access is released this summer, you will have immediate access to it through Steam. If you backed a tier that includes additional copies of the game, you will receive additional normal keys (not beta keys). You are free to share these with your family and friends, and once activated, they will also get Early Access in the summer.

The guys are now soaring ahead to the Early Access release this summer. Once things have settled down from the Steam key release, the three of them will be knuckling down hard to reach that goal, so there wonít be any more demo updates until early access, barring major bug fixes. The upside of this is Ė thereís only a few months to wait! Early Access will bring the surface, lots of new missions, new ant types, and new modes of play. Exciting times ahead!

Go ahead and redeem your Steam keys now! Weíre really excited to finally get to this stage Ė itís been a long time coming.

In the text it says when the game goes into beta testing in a few months, then it says the game will be early access in a few months? Beta is coming before early access right? lol Literally have ants in my pants anticipation for beta

Past colonies:Various species of camponotus, MANY past colonies of Solenopsis invicta (Red Imported Fire Ant), many colonies of brachymyrmex patagonicus, and Iíll post on here others I have kept when I remember!